Kyriad La Villette Paris
147-151 avenue de Flandres Paris, Île-de-France, 75019, France
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The City of Light
August 23
-The five hour bus ride to Versailles from Bruges was not too unbearable as the bus driver had beer for sale, and we all watched the Shawshank Redemption and slept. Actually, I think we slept more on the bus during this whole study trip than we did in our own beds back in Maas.
-Versailles was truely a huge, extravagent …
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The Journey
Good news,bad news always accompanies a journey. Good news, the plane left on time. Bad news, it was a 757 instead of a jumbo jet. It was small which meant the flight would be rough and the space would be cramped. Horatio Nelson had a smoother trip across the Rockies in 1903. We did arrive safely. More bad news when we attempted to call the realtor who was to meet us at ...
Paris
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Paris belongs to its piétons – the pedestrians, as John Baxter claims in his recent book The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. It’s only on foot that you discover the city’s richness and variety, he notes, adding that there is also no single Paris. The city exists as a blank page on which each person scribbles what the French call a griffe – literally “a claw” but more precisely a signature; a ...
Road Trippin'
... church in Bourbourg that was home to some sculptures currently on display. We’d like to tell you more about them, but all the information was in French. We do know that one was of Adam and Eve, and that the remainder had a decidedly nautical theme. Beyond that, who knows? Whilst mentioning our limited understanding of French, I should take the time to point out that it is severely limited, as in non-existent. Aside from hello, thank you and the numbers 1 – 5, we ...
Day 79 - Taking on Parisians with a bike, Catacomb
... Creepy and different but worth it. The catacombs was originally a mine (for limestone that build the Louvre, Notra Dame and so forth) in the early 1500/1600s and once all of the valuable material had been used it was left dormant. In the late 17th century, Paris had an issue with the dead ... the graveyards were overflowing and disease was occurring due to unsanitary storage of bodies ... so they began throwing all the bodies down into these mines (in ...



